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US-12034529

Automatic electronic message filtering method and apparatus

PublishedJuly 9, 2024
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Technical Abstract

Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in electronic messaging and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for generating electronic message filters and for using electronic message filters comprising item category filtering criteria and having an automatically-determined expiration. The discloses systems and methods filter electronic messages using the item category filtering criteria while an electronic message filter remains active as determined using the automatically-determined expiration information.

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4. The method of claim 2, wherein the trained machine model is trained for use with the identified information category.

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5. The method of claim 4, the trained machine model is trained for the user using training data generated from the data extracted from the corpus of electronic messages retrieved from a store of the user's messages.

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6. The method of claim 4, the trained machine model is generated for a plurality of users, including the user, using training data generated from the data extracted from the corpus of electronic messages retrieved from messages stored for the plurality of users.

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10. The method of claim 9, requesting approval of the user further comprising requesting the user's approval of the time frame determined for the electronic message filter using the trained machine model.

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11. The method of claim 9, requesting approval of the user further comprising requesting the user's approval of the filtering action.

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15. The method of claim 13, the user input comprising one or more search criteria used in a search of the user's electronic messages to identify at least the first electronic message satisfying the search criteria.

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16. The method of claim 13, the input of the user comprising selection of at least the first electronic message by the user.

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Filing Date

January 19, 2021

Publication Date

July 9, 2024

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